Indian travelling entertainers with animals. Gouache painting.

Date:
[1815?]
Reference:
728564i
Part of:
Indian practitioners of trades, crafts, and professions. Gouache paintings, 18--.
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Description

Three people: left to right; a drummer, a man with a snake around his neck and a black ram; a woman carrying wicker baskets and sacks on a panier

Publication/Creation

[1815?]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache, with indian ink and gold ; image 20.7 x approximately 25 cm

Lettering

Pellevan or mountebank. Worship Mahomet in general. Live by exhibiting tygers, bears, snakes &c., wives go about with them.

Creator/production credits

Attributed to a painter from Tanjore (Thanjavur)

Reference

Wellcome Collection 728564i

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  • volume II

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